AC9TDE8P01
Official content description
analyse needs or opportunities for designing, and investigate and select materials, components, tools, equipment and processes to create designed solutions
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What Year 7 Technologies students should achieve
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- For each of the 4 prescribed technologies contexts they explain how the features of technologies impact on design decisions, and create designed solutions based on analysis of needs or opportunities.
- By the end of Year 8 students explain how people design, innovate and produce products, services and environments for preferred futures.
- They design and trace algorithms and implement them in a general-purpose programming language.
- Students select appropriate hardware for particular tasks, explain how data is transmitted and secured in networks, and identify cyber security threats.
- Students acquire, interpret and model data with spreadsheets and represent data with integers and binary.
- They select and use a range of digital tools efficiently and responsibly to create, locate and share content; and to plan, collaborate on and manage projects.
The Processes and production skills progression either side of AC9TDE8P01
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Taught before · Years 5–6
- AC9TDE6P01investigate needs or opportunities for designing, and the materials, components, tools, equipment and processes needed to create designed solutions
- AC9TDE6P02generate, iterate and communicate design ideas, decisions and processes using technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools
- AC9TDE6P03select and use suitable materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions
Builds towards · Years 9–10
- AC9TDE10P01analyse needs or opportunities for designing; develop design briefs; and investigate, analyse and select materials, systems, components, tools and equipment to create designed solutions
- AC9TDE10P02apply innovation and enterprise skills to generate, test, iterate and communicate design ideas, processes and solutions, including using digital tools
- AC9TDE10P03select, justify, test and use suitable technologies, skills and processes, and apply safety procedures to safely make designed solutions
Other Year 7 Processes and production skills codes
- AC9TDE8P02generate, test, iterate and communicate design ideas, processes and solutions using technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools
- AC9TDE8P03select, justify and use suitable materials, components, tools, equipment, skills and processes to safely make designed solutions
- AC9TDE8P04develop design criteria collaboratively including sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions
- AC9TDE8P05develop project plans to individually and collaboratively manage time, cost and production of designed solutions
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